“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”

“People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.”

“Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.”

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”